Basket for cooking utensils



, A. AND S. LE DUC.

BASKET FOR COOKING UT ENSILS. APPLICATION FILED AuG.5. 1920.

mama Api. 25, 1922.

Unirse STA ALEXANDER LE DUC AND STEPHEN lLE DUC, `04F MINNEAfPOLIS, VLVIIIHIEISOTA.

BASKET ron COOKING UTENsiLs. j,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Api'. 25, 1922.

Appiwationl inea August 5, v1920. serial No. 461,283.

' and STEPHEN Ln DUC, citizens of the United States, residing at li/iinneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improve-l ments in Baskets for Cooking Utensils; and' wedo hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled' in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to cooking utensils and is directed to the provision of an im-` proved basket or inner cage that is inserta-ble into a cooking vessel, such as a pot or kettle and 1s adapted to contain various dierent `vegetables or other edibles that are to be cooked.

Generally stated the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

`Referring to the drawings:

Fig. l is a plan view of the basket or cage removed from working position;

Fig. 2 shows the basket in side elevation and a kettleor like cooking vessel in which the basket is inserted, in vertical section; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 33 of Fig. l.l j v The cookingk vessel, which is preferably a pot or kettle 4, may be any suitable construetion, such as found in use, but will preferably be provided with a cover which is not shown. The basket is preferably made from a single piece of sheet metal bent to form a cylinder 5 and having its abutting edges secured together by clinched staples' or any other suitable means.

In its sides, the metal cylinder 5 is provided with punched-out openings 7, which permit the free circulation Vof the water through the cylinder. These openings 7 are arranged in a plurality of Avertically spaced circumferentially extended horizontal rows, and as shown, there are three such rows. Certain of the passages 7 of eachv row at their extremities are provided with inwardly projecting rest lugs 8 preferably formed by turning inward integral portions of the cylinder forming sheet. As shown, there are `fourrest lugs 8 for each horizontal row of openings 7, 'nd' these lugs, as shown, are lo vvcated 9 0 degrees apart. Y

'The cylindrical basket is `provided withl a plurality of displaceable vand interchangeably usable false VVbottoms, preferably all made alike,`each beinglformed from adisklikev metal, plate `9 having 'radially extended .passages 'l0 and peripheral notches ll; The notchesll ofeach bottom disk are located 90 degrees apart andare of ysuch size that when aligned with the rest lug 8, they will clear and pass the same, so that a false bottom may be dropped down within thecage to a position immediately above any horizontal series of lugs 8. The vfalse bottom is then rotated so as to turn its notchesvk out of line with the underlyinglugs, and will then be supported by'said lugs; Of course,"

the removal of the false bottom will be accomplished by reverse operation. A

From the foregoing, it will be understood that one or more of the false bottoms may be thus applied in working position and placed on any one ofthe horizontal series of rest lugs Vand thus supported in any one of several different vertical positions in respect to the bottom of the cage and in respect to the bottom of the cooking vessel. Also, it isevident that any two or more of false bottoms may be thus applied in different vertical positions, within the basket or cage. This makesit possible to boil several different kinds of vegetables at one time, or vegetables and eggs, or the like, `may be. boiled at the. same time,` without permitting the several different articles to become miXed together. Also when the articles are cooked and the basketisliftedfrom the cooking vessel, the cookedV articles ,will be drained by the act of removing'the cage fromthe I water. l n

What we claim is: j i y 1. A basketfor use for cooking vessels,

comprising a.cylindrical shell having openings in its wall, and a plurality of vertically adjustable 'interchangeably usable false bot.-

toms, said false bottoms having *openings v therein, said shell and bottoms being constructed and arranged so that said bottoms can be inserted from thetop of the shell and seated at different points along said shell.V

2. A basket for use in cooking vessels, comprising a cylindrical shell formed from sheet metal, having openings cut in its wall and provided with inwardly projecting circumferentially spaced rest lugs, and a disklike metallic false bottom removably seated on saidfrest lugs and insertable 'from the top of the shell and itselt provided with openings it'or the circulation of water therethrough.

A basket for use in cooking vessels, comprising a cylindrical shell formed from sheet metal, provided with a plurality of vertically spaced circumferentially extended horizontal rows of openings and provided with several vertically spaced horizontal series of circumterentially spaced inwardly projecting rest lugs, and a plurality of disklikerfalse bottoms having openings therein for the circulation of water therethrough` andprovided with circumferentially spaced peripheral notches adapted to clear said rest y 4:. A basket for use in cooking vessels,

s only when in registration therewith.

comprising a cylindrical shell formed `trom sheet metal, provided with a plurality of vertically spaced circumterentially extended horizontal rows of openings and provided with several vertically spaced horizontal series oi circumterentially spaced inwardly projecting rest lugs, and a plurality of disklike false bottoms having openings therein for the circulation of water therethrough and provided with circurnterentially spaced peripheral notches adapted to clear said rest lugs only when in registration therewith, said rest lugs being formed byvturning inward portions of said cylindrical shell, at the extremities of Vcertain ot the openings thereof.

,In testimony whereof we affix our signatures. v

ALEXANDER LE DUC. STEPHEN LE DUC. 

